Lecture by Margarita Suárez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) in the framework of project Colonial legacies, invisible institutions, and financial markets in Latin America (and beyond)

10 June 2021

Language: Spanish

The discovery of a mining center as rich as Potosí sealed the fate of the Viceroyalty of Peru, which would be since then one of the nodes of the circuits of precious metals in the globe. From then on, the expression it is worth a Peru or it is worth a Potosí would become very popular in the realms of trade and literature. Moreover, for several decades, Potosí’s silver contributed to nurture the illusion that the Spanish conglomerate could remain united, despite distance and the sustained actions of Spain's enemies. Likewise, the abundance of Potosí’s piece of eight turned it into the first and only globally accepted currency, without which it would be impossible to access any market. Historians have emphasized the importance of the New World's silver to explain the European processes and their connections with the East, thus characterizing America as a provider of precious metals, in the so-called Great Divergence. However, the production and circulation of metals favored the participation of the American viceroyalty in imperial Spanish politics, while it fostered the development of the same mercantile and financial mechanisms used in the Old World since very early dates. The characterization of Peru (and America) as a producer of precious metals reduces the complexity of the viceregal networks, which was versatile, complex, and very interconnected. This lecture is intended to show how Lima and its peruleros participated in the circuits of silver that connected the Andean viceroyalty with the rest of the world from the 16th century until the end of the galleons’ system.

A viceroyalty of silver between two oceans. Peru and the beginnings of Global History

13 December 2021

Organised by Laura Downs and Dominika Gruziel (EUI) 

In this talk within the Sociobord lecture series, Professors Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Hanna Lindberg and John Paul Newman discuss a forthcoming special issue of the European Review of History on which all three are collaborating. Co-edited by Profs Lendàk and Lindberg, the special issue explores past and present patterns of welfare provision in the European border regions of Finland and Yugoslavia, with a special focus on ethnic and social minorities. Contributing author Newman will join Lendák and Lindberg in discussing some of the central questions that organize this special issue, including: How have different systems of social welfare addressed issues of ethnic heterogeneity? In which ways have different providers of social welfare contributed to the social inclusion or exclusion of minorities? How has the recognition of minority rights affected the distribution and organization of social welfare? How has the development of welfare contributed to the emergence of new social minorities constructed around disability and medical status? The answers to these questions will help us to better understand the ways in which social welfare and minorities have both constituted and responded to one another, and to see how these interactions have shaped the borders defining minorities and welfare.

Karolina Lendák-Kabók is an Assistant Professor at the Study program of Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She earned her PhD in Gender Studies in 2019. Her research interests include intersectionality, ethnic minorities, language rights and gender differences in academia. She has edited a book of essays with ethnic minority Hungarian women living in Serbia, titled Üvegplafon? Vajdasági magyar (értelmiségi) noi perspekívák [Glass Ceiling?, Hungarian (Intellectual) Women’s Perspectives in Vojvodina], Novi Sad: Forum, 2020. She is currently working on a monograph on ethnicminorities in Serbian academia and the role of gender and language barriers, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.

Hanna Lindberg is a historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX), Tampere University. She is specialized in the history of welfare, minorities, disability, and gender in the Nordic countries during the 20th century. In her current project she studies the minority formation and activism among Finland-Swedish deaf people in the 20th century. She has previously published works on the construction of gender in academic social policy and the history of scientific writing in Finland, and currently acts as editor-in-chief of the journal Finsk Tidskrift. 

 John Paul Newman is Assistant Professor in Twentieth-century European History at Maynooth University. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton and was an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the project ‘Paramilitary Violence after the Great War (2008-2011).’ His research focuses on the modern history of the Balkans and East-Central Europe (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Czechoslovakia), war veterans, paramilitary violence, victorious societies and cultures of war victory in twentieth century Europe and the intersections of national and imperial identities in nineteenth-century Central Europe. Professor Newman is the author of the monograph Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War 1903-1945: Veterans and the Limits of State Building (2018), and co-editor of several collective volumes.

Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare. The Cases of Finland and Yugoslavia

Lecture by Alev Berberoğlu (Koç University in Istanbul) on 7 March 2022

Organised by the EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group

Elisa Zonaro (1863-1946) was an Italian professional photographer active in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman capital during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). After her photography education in Paris with the renowned portrait photographer Eugène Pirou (1841-1909), she returned to Istanbul, where she established her studio and worked as a photographer from the late 1890s to 1910. She had an exceptional career as a woman photographer against all odds. However, despite many proofs of her achievements, her name has escaped historical surveys of photography thus far, and her story is yet to be written in full.
In my dissertation, I undertake the quest to uncover the hidden aspects of her career in photography departing from the photographs, documents, and personal objects in the Zonaro family archive in Italy. This presentation aims to discuss Elisa Zonaro’s achievements in photography and her contributions to the Ottoman visual culture, while also acknowledging the difficulties in researching the subject and writing herstory .

Alev Berberoglu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is also an Erasmus+ exchange student in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Her research areas include the history of photography in the Ottoman Empire with a focus on gender, materiality, and multiculturality. She is currently writing her dissertation entitled Unwritten Histories of Photography: Elisa Zonaro, an Italian Photographer in Ottoman Istanbul . In 2021, Berberoglu received the French Embassy Research Fellowship for PhD students and did thesis related research in Paris in affiliation with CETOBaC.

A Camera of her own: Elisa Zonaro, an Italian photographer in nineteenth-century Istanbul

Lecture by Alexander Etkind (EUI) and Shpend Kursani (University of Tartu)on 31 March 2022.

In the framework of the EUI Ukraine Month initiative.

Starting from the Ukrainian-Jewish Raphael Lemkin’s speech act that launched the concept of genocide into high politics, it has reigned over seminal debates, court trials, and transnational institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This talk will combine a deep history of Lemkin’s concept with its originally Ukrainian roots; an overview of the more recent Ukrainian-Russian debates about the genocidal nature of the Soviet famines; a focus on the revival of the genocide claims during the late 20th century Balkan wars; and the first observations on the circulation of G-word during the initial weeks of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

G-Word: A Deep History of Genocide Claims in the Russo-Ukrainian War

The Chicken or the Egg: ‘Irregular’ Migration and Italian Policy
 
At the heart of the most dangerous pathway into Europe, Italy has seen a spike in anti-migrant narratives and exclusionary policies since 2015. But is the arrival of migrants shaping Italian policy or are Italian policies influencing migratory flows? In the first episode of Across Borders, Dr Luigi Achilli from the EUI’s Migration Policy Centre helps us untangle fact from fiction and understand the reality of Mediterranean migration to Italy.
 
 Produced by Giulia Torri and Andrew Fallone 

Across Borders: How Migration Politics Work is a podcast which untangles the complexities of global migration.  Made by students of the MA in Transnational Governance at the EUI in Florence, the five episodes see experts tackle migration across the Mediterranean Sea, Brexit, the role of the media, the impact of gender on refugees’ lives and how migrants can become pawns in international politics. 
Supervision by Dr Lorenzo Piccoli, scripting and technical support by Adriana Urbano, with the assistance of Michele Giovanardi.

Across Borders: How Global Migration Works | Ep. 1. 'Irregular' Migration and Italian Policy

Watch your Attitude(s): migration, values and post-Brexit Britain

Migration was one of the most inflammatory topics of the 2016 Brexit campaign. But how was migration politicised in Britain? What factors shaped the British public’s views? Did labour shortages after Brexit and fields of rotting strawberries impact public opinion? In the second episode of Across Borders, EUI researcher Anne Sophie Nielsen explores how our values and circumstances shape our attitudes on migration, offering insights that go beyond British borders.
Produced by Micol Ambroso and Hannes Wehnhardt

Across Borders: How Migration Politics Work is a podcast which untangles the complexities of global migration.  Made by students of the MA in Transnational Governance at the EUI in Florence, the five episodes see experts tackle migration across the Mediterranean Sea, Brexit, the role of the media, the impact of gender on refugees’ lives and how migrants can become pawns in international politics. 
Supervision by Dr Lorenzo Piccoli, scripting and technical support by Adriana Urbano, with the assistance of Michele Giovanardi.

Across Borders: How Global Migration Works | Ep 2. Watch your Attitude(s): migration & Britain

Tension at the Border: How Migrants Can be Used to Blackmail the EU

Recent 'migration crises' have revealed how states can use migrants as political pawns to blackmail neighboring states. What are the tensions between states and the EU and what role is played by a lack of political cohesion? In the fourth episode of Across Border, political scientist Lenka Drazanova looks at why EU countries cannot agree on a common strategy and how this creates long-term contradictions in the management of borders.
Produced by Moaz Nasser Saber Abdelrahman and Melina Boin.


Across Borders: How Migration Politics Work is a podcast which untangles the complexities of global migration.  Made by students of the MA in Transnational Governance at the EUI in Florence, the five episodes see experts tackle migration across the Mediterranean Sea, Brexit, the role of the media, the impact of gender on refugees’ lives and how migrants can become pawns in international politics. 

Supervision by Dr Lorenzo Piccoli, scripting and technical support by Adriana Urbano, with the assistance of Michele Giovanardi.

Across Borders: How Global Migration Works | Ep 4. Tension at the Border

In this extract, Jean Pierre Cot, Former President of the Socialist group of the European Parliament, draws the attention on the difference between influence and formal competences. The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/oral_history/INT817

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU's Alcide de Gasperi Centre's project 'The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside the Parliament and beyond (1979-2019)', directed by Professor Alfredo de Feo and Professor Michael Shackleton, with the support of Professor Adrienne Heritier.

All the interviews are held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history

influence et pouvoir des MEPs

12 Contributions of the EP to the European Project: Jean Pierre Cot on influence vs competences

Lecture on 7 March 2022 in the framework of the SOCIOBORD project Lecture Series

Speaker:  Emily Baughan (University of Sheffield)

Save the Children was one of the world’s first self-styled ‘international’ humanitarian organisations. Founded in 1919, it sought to build internationalism via the creation of strong nation states, the promotion of global capitalism and the preservation of the British Empire. Humanitarians saw global stability as being vested in the bodies of the very young. While Save the Children proclaimed a doctrine of universal child rights, it valued children based on their perceived future contribution to global capitalism, and used racial and eugenic criteria to describe this. Told across eighteen counties and 50 years, my book, published in 2021, tells the story of international humanitarianism in the twentieth century, examining the interplay of local welfare practises and international action. In this talk I argue that welfare practises designed for and gathered from European borderlands between the two world wars were exported by aid organisations into the decolonizing British empire after 1945, where they became a central pillar of imperial designs to halt the course of decolonisation. Doing so, I will illuminate the relationship between precarious nationhood and welfare not just in Europe’s borderlands, but the shifting borderlands of empire.

Saving the Children. Humanitarianism, Internationalism and the British Empire

Lecture on 23 June 2022 in the framework of the SOCIOBORD project Lecture Series

Speaker: Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence)

In recent years, international humanitarianism has increasingly attracted the interest of historians. A great deal of research has mainly examined the experience of donor countries in northern Europe, as well as the United States, while the countries of southern Europe have largely been overlooked.

How can we challenge this unbalance? To what extent the contribution of the Mediterranean Europe urges us to reframe the history of international aid? The paper revolves around these questions.

 

Silvia Salvatici teaches Modern History at the University of Florence. Her recent research interests focus on refugees in the contemporary age and the history of humanitarianism. Among her publications: A History of Humanitarianism 1755-1989. In the name of Others, Manchester, MUP, 2019; ‘Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation’, European History Quarterly (forthcoming).

Reframing the history of international aid A view from Southern Europe

Lecture on 29 November 2022 as part of the Sociobord project Lecture Series

Speaker: Radka Šustrová (University of Cambridge)

There are various philosophical concepts of social justice, but what was considered socially just for concrete people can be only captured in specific historical settings. This talk will trace how a social justice appeal circulated among and was understood by the working population throughout the period of National Socialism and post-war people’s democracy. As a semi-periphery of the European West and given its geopolitical position, Czechoslovakia was influenced by regimes of all times, liberal democracy, National Socialism, and Communism. These regimes implemented the different systems of social justice from above through various institutions of the welfare state and legal norms. Paying attention to language and concrete instruments aimed to establish social justice in the workplace, the talk will raise the question of how people imagined and demanded social justice in time, which is connected chiefly with injustice.
 

Radka Šustrová is British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and lecturer in Social History at Charles University in Prague. She deals with the history of the welfare state, nationalism, labour and gender in 20th century Central Europe, especially during National Socialism and Communism. Her book titled 'Nations Apart: Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare under Nazi Rule' will be published in 2022/23.

A Quest for Fairness. Workplace Justice and Authoritarian Regimes in Czechoslovakia

THE LONG GLOBAL CRISIS, c.1912-c.1922 - Part 1

Lecture on 02 March 2023 on food supply and political Legitimacy of the post World War I Yugoslav state, in the framework of the SOCIOBORD project Lecture Series

Speaker: Rok Stergar (University of Ljubljana)

The new states that were established in the autumn of 1918—after the Habsburg Empire fell apart—presented themselves as something new and better. Not only were they supposed to be the embodiment of the national yearnings of formerly oppressed nations in the Habsburg Empire, but they would also be more democratic, the administration would work better, the economy would flourish, and harvests would be abundant. In short, they were to be a decisive break with the imperial past. However, the new nation states often could not deliver on these lofty promises, and, as a result, their legitimacy began to erode rather rapidly. In this context, the inability to quickly improve the food supply played an important role. In the Slovene part of Yugoslavia, the inadequate supply of basic foodstuffs, rationing and increasing prices made the already volatile situation worse, as parts of the population began to grumble, protest, and yearn for the Habsburgs, looking across their northern and western borders. Police and court files, district captains’ reports and various other sources indicate that after the proclamation of independence the mood of the population quickly soured, and that the legitimacy of the new state was often questioned.

"Yugoslavia is worthless, you can get neither sugar nor kerosene"

In this extract, David O’Sullivan, Secretary General of the Commission 2000-2005, argues that the crisis could have been resolved if Edith Cresson had resigned and that her failure to do so was extremely detrimental to the image of the Commission. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside and beyond (1979-2019)’ 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT1095

24 Contribution of the EP to the European Project: David O’Sullivan on Edith Cresson & the crisis

In this extract, Klaus Welle, Secretary General of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2022, rejects the argument that the EU is a parliamentary democracy like national democracies and argues that it is only possible to have a successful Spitzenkandidaten system if the proposed candidate is acceptable to both Parliament and the European Council. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The 	contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors 	inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Klaus Welle on EU democracy and Spitzenkandidaten

In this extract, Jose Maria Gil-Robles, former President of the European Parliament, describes what he sees as the arrogant attitude of the Commission, determined to maintain a level of independence incompatible with a parliamentary system where the executive depends on a parliamentary majority. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT830

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Jose Maria Gil-Robles on Commission attitudes re. EP

In this extract, Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament, describes how he came to see detailed arguments about the budget of the Commission in terms of a broader question of public accountability of the executive, rejecting in the process the Commission’s argument in favour of collective responsibility. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors 	inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT818

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Pat Cox fall of the Santer Commission

In this extract, Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi,  ancien Directeur au Secrétariat Général  de la Commission, souligne le rôle de Delors dans la préparation de l’Acte Unique, notamment son soucis de garantir l’unicité du cadre commun et de la coopération politique. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU's Alcide de Gasperi Centre's project 'The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside the Parliament and beyond (1979-2019)', directed by Professor Alfredo de Feo and Professor Michael Shackleton, with the support of Professor Adrienne Heritier. All of the interviews are held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT983

role Delors dans l'Acte unique

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi on Delors

In this extract, Ken Collins, Chair of the Environment Committee from 1979 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1999, describes how he was unexpectedly informed whilst on holiday in the summer of 1979 that he had become chair of the Environment Committee.   

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors 	inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT814

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Ken Collins on becoming Chair of Environment Comm.

In this extract, Ken Collins, Chair of the Environment Committee from 1979 to 1984 and from 1989 to 1999, describes how the Water Framework Directive originated in a conversation he had with his assistants over a coffee and went on to become one of the great successes of the European Union. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside and beyond (1979-2019)” 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT814

Contribution of the EP to the European Project:  Ken Collins on the Water Framework Directive

In this extract, Beate Weber, chair of the Environment Committee from 1984 to 1989, describes how the Parliament successfully set up a committee of inquiry to examine the Seveso disaster and the subsequent disappearance of barrels of toxic waste that were never recovered. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors inside and beyond (1979-2019)’ 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: Weber-Schuerholz, Beate (eui.eu)https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT902

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Beate Weber on the Seveso Committee  inquiry

In this extract, Beate Weber, Chair of the Environment Committee from 1984 to 1989, describes how in the absence of any German law transposing the EU Directive on public access to environmental information, she succeeded incorporating the directive into local municipal law in Heidelberg where she was Mayor. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors 	inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: Weber-Schuerholz, Beate (eui.eu)
https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT902

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Beate Weber on EU directive & municipal law

In this extract, Stanley Johnson, Conservative MEP from 1979 to 1984, describes how he played a significant role in adding at the end of the section on environment policy of the Spinelli-inspired Draft Treaty on European Union a phrase referring to the need to take measures in the field of animal protection. 

The playlist was compiled for the HAEU’s Alcide de Gasperi Centre’s project ‘The contribution of the European Parliament to the European project, as seen by the actors 	inside and beyond (1979-2019) 

The full interview is held in the oral history collection of the Historical Archives of the European Union: Johnson, Stanley (eui.eu)https://archives.eui.eu/en/oral_history/INT185

Contribution of the EP to the European Project: Stanley Johnson on the Spinelli report

This podcast brings people from across the European University Institute (EUI) together to discuss questions of identity, belonging, representation, and marginalisation that affect every part of society, from places of work to politics, from culture to history, and everything in between.

On occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, this first episode hosts Giuseppe Zago, Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Officer at the EUI, who is joined by Professor Monika Baar, Joint Chair at the EUI History Department and Robert Schuman Centre, Director of Graduate Studies at the History Department, and an expert in the History of Disability.

The elephant in the room | Can you see me – International Day of Persons with Disability

This podcast brings people from across the European University Institute (EUI) together to discuss questions of identity, belonging, representation, and marginalisation that affect every part of society, from places of work to politics, from culture to history, and everything in between.

On occasion of International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2024, this episode of the EDI podcast hosts Carol Awuor Ofafa, Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre, for a discussion on gender equality and its challenges and opportunities.

The elephant in the room | Battling gender inequality: one bike ride at a time

Prof. Bo Stråth(University of Helsinki) "Three European Crises and Two Master Tales: From Keynes to Hayek – and after Hayek?"

Prof. Bo Stråth - "Three European Crises And Two Master Tales"

The Peripheries of the European Revolutionary Process(es) 1917–1923 (5-7 October 2017)

-  Steve Smith (University of Oxford) – The Russian Revolution: A Hundred Years On (5 October 2017)
- Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) - Bolshevism and the European Counter-Revolution, 1917-1939 (6 October 2017)

Abstract:
The Russian Revolution was a watershed event in global history. The transformations it occasioned lastingly shaped the world order. Its reverberations were felt well beyond the borders of the Tsarist empire. Many of its protagonists conceived it as the first act of the world revolution – an impression that was shared by many abroad, both friends and foes. The revolution inaugurated a period of pan-European agitations unseen since 1848. The centenary of 1917 has rekindled interest for the Russian Revolution and its global significance, which is being revisited through innovative prisms, shedding light on disregarded actors, networks, and ideas. 
This international conference aims to put the EUI at the forefront of the resurgent historiography on the Russian Revolution and the European upheavals it inspired by reassessing its global impact from the margins. We propose to shift attention away from the well-known splits and schisms in Social Democracy to focus on the reception of the Bolshevik Revolution by unconventional groups of radicals, iconoclasts, and revolutionaries that have been frequently forgotten by the historiography: nationalists, feminists, anarchists, republicans, etc., who struck temporary and often tense and fragile alliances with the Bolsheviks. We are interested in studying the way these groups understood and assimilated the news coming from the east; in the blurry and unstable but also mythical and rousing images conjured by the revolution; and the networks and channels through which they learned about the revolution and engaged with the Bolsheviks and the nascent Third International. Not only are we concerned with the ideological peripheries of the European revolutionary movement, but also on its geographic peripheries, and are particularly interested in case studies that move away from the Central European shatterzones to less studied corners of the continent.

Organisers: 
Jan Rybak (EUI - Department of History and Civilization)
Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (EUI - Department of History and Civilization)

Steve Smith (Oxford) 'The Russian Revolution: A Hundred Years On'

1. Max Weber Lecture with Cecilia L. Ridgeway (Stanford University): ‘Understanding the Nature of Status Inequality: Why Is It Everywhere?  Why Does it Matter?’, 8 November 2017 Abstract: The lecturer argues that status hierarchies are a cultural invention to organize and manage social relations in a fundamental human condition: cooperative interdependence to achieve valued goals with nested competitive interdependence to maximize individual outcomes in the effort.
2. Cecilia L. Ridgeway (Stanford University) in conversation with Nevena Kulic (MWF-SPS), 8 November 2017:  Abstract: this interview explores the concept of status, why it is crucial to explain persistent inequalities and tentatively traces what could be done to mitigate this effect.

MW Lecture with Cecilia L. Ridgeway: "Understanding the Nature of Status Inequality", 8/11/2017

Lecture: Republicanism in Russia. Community before and after Communism (5/12/2017)

Speaker: Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St. Petersburg)

In "Republicanism in Russia", his book forthcoming at Harvard University Press, Kharkhordin suggests that Russia is not averse to freedom, though this freedom is of a republican, rather than of a liberal kind, because Russia is close to a classical tradition of republican self-government and civic engagement.
Republicanism has had a steadfast presence in Russia, in spite of tsarist and Communist hostility. Originating in the ancient world, especially with Cicero, it continued by way of such modern authros as Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and more recently Arendt. While it has not always been easy for Russians to read or write political philosophy of the classical republicanism, much less implement it, republican ideas have long flowered in Russian literature, and are part of a common background understanding of what is freedom, dignity, a worthy life etc. Contemporary Russian republicanism can be seen in movements defending architectural and cultural heritage, municipal participatory budgeting experiments, and shared governance in academic institutions. Drawing on diverse sources from recent empirical research done in Russia, Kharkhordin elaborates a theory of res publica in Russia, which is different from either tight circles of friendship or vast areas of “commoning” that are constituted by a shared material world—a genuine public life that is different from the common things on which it is based.

Oleg Kharkhordin (EUI)- Republicanism in Russia. Community before and after Communism

Max Weber Lecture by Professor Odd Arne Westad, delivered at the European University Institute on 13 December 2017. Westad's lecture  "The Cold War: A World History" builds on his latest book to offer a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of the globe.

The Cold War: A World History. Max Weber Lecture by Arne Westad

Book presentation/Lecture: A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and a Half Millennia
Speaker: Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)

To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In "A Short History of European Law", Tamar Herzog offers a new road map that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By identifying what European law was, where its iterations could be found, who was allowed to make and implement it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances, and allows readers to grasp their malleability and fragility.

Book Presentation in the framework of the seminar Competition, Collaboration and Emulation: Early Modern Commercial and Colonial Expansion Revisited.

A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and a Half Millennia - Tamar Herzog, 20/02/2018

Ahead of a Max Weber Occasional Lecture to celebrate Karl Marx at 200, William C. Roberts (McGill University) was in conversation with MW Fellows Bruno Leipold (SPS) and Pascale Siegrist (HEC) on Roberts' latest book ‘Marx's Inferno’ and his approach to reading Karl Marx

MW Conversation: William C. Roberts with MW Fellows Bruno Leipold(SPS) and Pascale Siegrist(HEC)

Henry Laurens sur l’évolution de la région dite Moyen-Orient sur deux siècles et demi pour montrer les récurrences et les mécanismes que l’on retrouve aujourd’hui dans un temporalité longue. L’ambition est de récuser à la fois le discours faisant porter toutes les responsabilités sur les Occidentaux et celui de l’incapacité, pour des raisons culturelles, des habitants de la région à accéder à une modernité démocratique

Le Moyen Orient comme système politique, Lecture by Henry Laurens (Collège de France)

Annelien De Dijn (Utrecht University) in conversation MW Fellows Jared Holley (HEC) and Bruno Leipold (SPS), 16 January 2019: The interview focuses on De Dijn's books and her critique of Republicanism.

MWP Interview With Annelien De Dijn

In a lecture delivered at the European University Institute Department of History and Civilization on 21 February 2019, historian and emerita Professor Luisa Passerini discusses dialogues and silences in oral and visual stories.

'Which form do silences take in oral stories? My talk will start from this question to interpret some of the meanings of silence in oral memory and more generally in the history of subjectivity, on the basis of my previous research on the memory of fascism. I will then proceed to explore how the connection between silence and memory can be transposed to the study of visual memory and the interpretation of visual narratives, on the basis on my recent Ebook Conversations on Visual Memory.'

Dialogues and Silences in Oral and Visual Stories. Lecture by historian Luisa Passerini

Looking West: the European Socialist regimes facing pan-European cooperation and the European Community (PanEur1970s) is a five-year ERC Advanced project designed to investigate the European Socialist regimes’ expectations and predicaments vis-à-vis the opening of a space of pan-European cooperation in the long 1970s. At the final conference, the key results of more than 4 years of fruitful research across seven countries was presented, compared and discussed with some of the best specialists in the field. The tracks in this playlist include presentations from the Project Director Federico Romero, the PanEur1970s Senior Research Fellow Angela Romano and two invited speakers: Fritz Bartel (Texas A&M University) and Lukas Dovern (Stanford University).

Federico Romero, Socialism between détente and globalization

Angela Romano, Pan-Europe: A continental space of cooperation(s)

Fritz Bartel, The Local Dimension of Global Finance: Poland and the World in the long 1970s

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Brought to you by the European University Institute, the Take-Away podcast is dedicated to the take-away points of the special online edition of The State of the Union conference.

Experts from around the world took part in 'Europe: Managing the COVID-19 crisis' to discuss how to best tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lockdowns, vaccines and health care are at the heart of the first episode of the series.

Featuring Andrea Ammon, Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Dr. Dorit Nitzan, Regional Emergency Director, World Health Organization (WHO) and Dr. Xuejie Yu, Professor and Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Wuhan University.

The panel was moderated by Professor Ellen Immergut, Head of Department of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute and Assia Brandrup Lukanow
MD Specialist in Public Health, MSc Clinical Tropical Medicine, MSc Psychology.

A report by Adriana Urbano.

The Take Away - The State of the Union podcast, Episode 1: Health Policy and Society.

Brought to you by the European University Institute, the Take-Away podcast is dedicated to the take-away points of the special online edition of The State of the Union conference.

Experts from around the world took part in 'Europe: Managing the COVID-19 crisis' to discuss how to best tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge shock for the world economy. The second session of The State of the Union saw experts from the European Union discuss how to best move forward. A common fiscal response, solidarity across the eurozone and support for firms and workers were at the heart of the debate.


Featuring Laurence Boone, Chief Economist of the OECD, Professor Ricardo Reis from the London School of Economics and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, former head of EUROGROUP.

The panel was moderated by Professor George Papaconstatinou, Part-Time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance and former Finance Minister of Greece during the eurocrisis.

A report by Adriana Urbano.

The Take Away - The State of the Union podcast. Episode 2: Strategies for Economic Recovery

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